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The mission butchered hogs a few weeks ago. The church people are allowed to help in exchange for getting the meat at a reduced price. Isn’t that cool? I got a few packs of sausage and some pork fat from which I made a jar of beautiful lard. (Getting all house-wifey again!)

My baby has lots of doting “relatives” here.

This lady is the brains behind who ordered what cut of meat etc.—she keeps it all straight.

Sausage…mmm. (What’s a working day without tea?)

Even the babies had fun.

Gabriel took a dissection kit along and sawed open a hog’s head to see what he could see.

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Considering the interest your Irish husband vet has in dissecting the “porkers” brain, maybe he could give some enlightenment to the idea that pigs indeed have a considerably higher IQ then most other animals? I’m sure if you watched a vet “pick” a hogs brain you would definitely have a better understanding of how he thinks! Which one??? 🙂 Enjoyed your interesting butchering day story!

Well, if intelligence means the pig learns novel behaviours & activities quickly, that’s just the way the Good Lord made ’em. They apparently are just behind monkeys and dolphins in this; quite a bit ahead of, say, chickens and horses. (That’s not hard to appreciate.) If intelligence means the pig can reason the way humans do and learn to emulate human behaviour, well, that’s just a matter of opinion, isn’t it?
~GSJ

Glad to see nephew Richard is improving his education! Tell him his cousin Bethan is going to dissect a baby pig at school….delightful. As least you know that your full grown pig was all put to good use!